Friday, August 13, 2010

Life and death

One study found that global warming could increase the groundlevel
ozone by 10 ppb or more during heat waves by 2050 in the
Midwest and Northeast. For a city like Washington, DC , that
means about 42 excess deaths for each day that there is elevated
ozone. These would be in addition to any deaths caused
primarily by exposure to extreme heat.


Extreme Heat in Summer 2010:
A Window on the Future

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